love

Author Topic: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments  (Read 61687 times)

PeacefulAnarchy

  • Elite Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 2132
    • Criticker reviews
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #340 on: September 25, 2011, 01:04:02 PM »
5. I Fidanzati
6. Il Posto
These two are great and short, and similar enough in style that watching one will give you a decent idea of whether you'll like the other. I prefer Il posto since the main character's struggles are more relatable  to me, but I've seen people with the opposite opinion.

My Night at Maud's is one of Rohmer's best and definitely a must see, as are the two Satyajit Ray films on your list.

I'd be interested in seeing what you think of Ratcatcher, since I too hated Morvern Callar.

My own list of 26 unwatched in the top 500 is a mix of films I've been meaning to see, ones I've been avoiding and a few I've never heard of.

MartinTeller

  • FAB
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 17864
  • martinteller.wordpress.com
    • my movie blog
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #341 on: September 25, 2011, 01:17:04 PM »
Films I haven't seen from the top 500:

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Tree of Life (in my marathon, already pre-ordered the Blu-Ray)
Almost Famous (seen most of it)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Eureka
Where The Wild Things Are (in my marathon)
Mary Poppins (probably saw it as a child)
Brokeback Mountain (in my marathon)
In America
In Bruges
Friday Night / Vendredi Soir
Island (2006)
Sense and Sensibility
I’m Not There
Welfare
In The Bedroom
After the Wedding
I [Heart] Huckabees
Christmas Story (hated what I've seen of it)
Mysterious Skin  
Never Cry Wolf
Barbarian Invasions
Fiddler on the Roof
Chariots of Fire
Buffalo '66
Dumb and Dumber
Another Year
Lucky Star
Daguerreotypes
Pride & Prejudice
Mary and Max
Gattaca
Robin Hood (1973)
Paris is Burning
Together/Tillsammans

Quite a lot!

GothamCity151

  • Godfather
  • *****
  • Posts: 6495
  • Join us!
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #342 on: September 25, 2011, 01:31:44 PM »
Films I haven't seen from the top 500:

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

What.....? List of Shame soon.

1SO

  • FAB
  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 36129
  • Marathon Man
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #343 on: September 25, 2011, 01:46:25 PM »
I like sdedalus adding "for you". Martin's seems more like a list of films I should watch because they're excellent, but picks like Jeanne Dielman… feel like asking for trouble.

That being said, Pierrot le fou is interesting to put at the top since I don't like Godard.

As for Beauty and the Beast, Martin's been rather clear about his hesitation towards that film based on his general opinion of 90s Disney and his love for the 1946 Cocteau version. That's why we all look past it and harp on him to watch Mary Poppins.

Though if I were to dictate a sure bet to Martin from that list, it would be Eureka.

sdedalus

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 16585
  • I have a prestigious blog, sir!
    • The End of Cinema
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #344 on: September 25, 2011, 01:53:04 PM »
Don't think of it as Godard, think of it as Bonnie & Clyde.

Pierrot le fou and A Woman is a Woman are probably his easiest films to like.  The two films where his sheer joy in making movies is most evident.
The End of Cinema

Seattle Screen Scene

"He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"

GothamCity151

  • Godfather
  • *****
  • Posts: 6495
  • Join us!
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #345 on: September 25, 2011, 02:46:46 PM »
Top 500 (What I Haven't Seen):

-Princess Mononoke (Next film to be up for LOS)
-Chungking Express
-Three Colors: Red (Part of my LOS Dictation)
-Rashomon
-The Passion Of Joan Of Ark
-Hoop Dreams
-My Neighbor Totoro
-High And Low
-Scenes From A Marriage
-Ikiru (on my LOS)
-Naussica Of The Valley Of The Wind
-The General
-The Double Life Of Veronique
-Yi Yi
-Wings Of Desire
-The Thing
-Brighter Summer Day
-Tokyo Story
-In a Lonely Place
-Army Of Shadows
-Werckmeister Harmonies
-Children Of Paradise
-Playtime
-Persona
-Shop Around The Corner
-High Fidelity
-Eureka
-Cleo From 5 To 7
-Sweet Smell Of Success
-The Battle Of Algiers
-La Jetée
-Last Year At Marienbad
-The Best Years Of Our Lives
-Fanny And Alexander
-La Haine
-Pather Panchali
-Sherlock Jr.
-Only Angels Have Wings
-Secrets And Lies
-The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
-Songs From The Second Floor
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, And Spring
-Happy Together
-The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
-I Fidanzati
-Still Walking
-In America
-CINECAST!ing Amal
-My Darling Clementine
-Stalag 17
-All That Jazz
-Il Posto
-The Grand Illusion
-My Winnipeg
-Sátántangó
-Andrei Rublev (on my LOS)
-The Return
-Memories Of Murder
-Peeping Tom (on my LOS)
-Winter Light
-Friday Night
-Jeanne Dielman
-Celebration
-Mon Oncle
-Rio Bravo (on my LOS)
-After Life
-Jules And Jim
-Red Beard
-A Woman Under The Influence
-The Exterminating Angel
-My Night At Maud's
-Long Day Closes
-Time Of The Gypsies
-Nights Of Cabiria
-Vertical Ray Of The Sun
-Stalker
-Welfare
-Underground
-Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
-Syndromes And A Century
-Man Escaped
-Love Me Tonight
-Hiroshima Mon Amour
-The Gleaners And I
-Night And Fog
-Stardust Memories
-Platform
-35 Shots Of Rum
-Out Of The Past
-After The Wedding
-Tampopo
-A Christmas Story
-An Angel At My Table
-Naked
-Never Cry Wolf
-Whisper Of The Heart
-Sex, Lies, And Videotape
-Dead Man
-Life Is Beautiful (will be watching in class)
-Perfect Blue
-Barbarian Invasions
-Imitation Of Life
-La Dolce Vida (watching tomorrow)
-A Short Film About Love
-The Spirit Of The Beehive
-Castle In the Sky
-The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover
-Late Spring
-Shoot The Piano Player
-The Conformist
-A Woman Is A Woman
-American Movie
-Harakiri
-Nashville
-Paprika
-Young Girls Of Rochefort
-What Time Is It There?
-Ashes And Diamonds
-Fallen Angels
-House
-Beau Travali
-Day For Night
-The Leopard
-The Wages Of Fear
-Picnic At Hanging Rock
-Another Year
-Killer Of Sheep
-Howl's Moving Castle
-Gregory's Girl
-Lucky Star
-World Of Apu
-Close Up
-Millenium Mambo
-Ordet
-The Hole
-Daguerreotypes
-Three Colors: White (Part of my LOS dictation)
-The Man With A Movie Camera
-Mary And Max
-Tale Of Tales
-Meet Me In St. Louis
-Raise The Red Lantern
-Paris Is Burning
-Devils On The Doorstep
-The Five Obstructions
-Sans Soleil
-Together
-Innocence
-Letter To Three Wives

That is an embarrassing amount.

'Noke

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 11799
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #346 on: September 25, 2011, 02:56:09 PM »
Top 500 (What I Haven't Seen):

-Princess Mononoke (Next film to be up for LOS)

Huzzah!
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

Bondo

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 23082
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #347 on: September 25, 2011, 06:54:51 PM »
Unseen from the top 500, Ones I'm keen to see in bold:

The Tree of Life
Wings of Desire
Shadow of a Doubt
Brighter Summer Day
Army of Shadows
Children of Paradise
French Connection
Persona
Shop Around The Corner
Glengarry Glen Ross
Eureka
Le Cercle Rouge
Halloween
Mean Streets
La Haine
Pather Panchali
Lady Vengence
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Secrets and Lies
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Black Narcissus

I Fidanzati
My Darling Clementine
Videodrome
Il Posto
Satantago
The Return
Throne of Blood
Memories of Murder
Winter Light
Friday Night
Island
Mon Oncle
Waiting For Guffman
Jules and Jim
The Exterminating Angel
My Night at Maud's
Long Day Closes
Time of the Gypsies
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Dawn of the Dead
Welfare

Man Escaped
Love Me Tonight
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Purple Rose of Cairo
L'Avventura
Platform
Out of the Past
Miami Vice
Tampopo
An Angel at My Table
Never Cry Wolf
Pierrot le fou
Dead Man
Spirit of the Beehive
Cook Thief Wife Lover
Late Spring
Magnificent Ambersons
Shoot The Piano Player
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Chariots of Fire
The Conformist
Woman is a Woman
American Movie
Nashville
Young Girls of Rochefort
What Time Is It There
Ashes and Diamonds
Buffalo '66
Fallen Angels
House
Beau Travail
Day For Night
Leopard
Gregory's GIrl
Lucky Star
World of Apu
Matter of Life and Death
Sanjuro
Close Up
Millennium Mambo
Ordet
The Hole
The Remains of the Day
Daguerrotypes
Tale of Tales
Raise the Red Lantern
Night of the Living Dead
Paris is Burning

Devils on the Doorsetp
The Five Obstructions
Letter to Three Wives

smirnoff

  • Objectively Awesome
  • ******
  • Posts: 26251
    • smirnoff's Top 100
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #348 on: September 25, 2011, 07:25:01 PM »
-12 films from my list
-haven't seen 21 of the 100
-somewhat interested in seeing 2 of them (It's a Wonderful Life and Tree of Life)



A fun way to look at the list is if you divide points by number of votes and trim off any film that only received a single vote. When you sort the result what you get is a list that reflects how well-loved a film is when it manages to crack a filmspotters' top 100s.

For example the number one film is Long Day Closes, and Spirited Away tops The Godfather. Kind of neat. It's a look at how well loved a film is by those who love it, and it isn't necessary for many people to have seen it to make the list (just 2).

Here's the list

Anyways, I thought that was kind of cool.

tinyholidays

  • Elite Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 3715
  • It's a hard world for little things.
Re: 4th Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #349 on: September 25, 2011, 08:29:31 PM »
Aaahh!!! Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is #4 on the remix! Supercool, smirnoff!